Boardwalk is a busy resort. You can hear the fireworks from pretty much every room in the building - both Epcot and DHS. While most of the "street noise" comes from the Boardwalk, you can also get standard view rooms that are close enough to baggage to listen to luggage often. And it has interior hallways - long interior hallways - which at 8:15am come alive with children running and screaming to catch the bus - all having to go down the same hallway on each floor. The pool is in the big U of the pool view rooms - and all the pool noise can bounce up into the rooms.
That said, its completely possible you would notice no noise. Its completely possible that you will find it overwhelmingly noisy but the person in the room next to you doesn't even notice the noise. People have different tolerances for noise and they have different room patterns - someone isn't going to notice pool noise if they aren't in the room during peak pool time or are there in January....and someone isn't going to notice bar noise if they are out themselves until 2am.
And the farther you are from the elevators, the less noise comes from the hallways.
We've found that most noise at the BWV comes from the hallways or the main pool (during the afternoon games). We usually book standard view and request to be near the bus stop or tennis courts. Seems most families (especially those with strollers) prefer to be close to the elevators. That said, the children aren't nearly as annoying as their parents who are yelling at them to be quiet and/or stop running, LOL
I just got back from a stay in a Boardwalk view studio. Our room was on the 2nd floor on top of Big River Grille. I was surprised that we didn't hear any noise from the Boardwalk at night. I agree with previous posters that noise mainly comes from the hallways and neighbors, so that you can't really control.
This. We had the sideways boardwalk P/G view overlooking the grassy space (side view of BW) last year. We were 4th floor and it was still noisy. DH said not to ever request that again and I now don't foresee us booking BW view. I never hear much hallway noise at BWV (except one time we had 1st floor room across from door to main pool (near hot tub). That was noisy in the hallway and being close to the portico out front, it had the beeping of the airport luggage trucks noise too. But I LOVED that location with my mom who had bad knees (could walk right out that door to pool and cut through to BW).That's surprising - was it cold? Or do you have a high noise tolerance? Because those rooms can be some of the noisiest at BWV. When Big River Grille's patio is hopping with a couple of wedding parties, those rooms can get loud (I've stayed there and found those rooms to be the noisiest we've ever had).
That's surprising - was it cold? Or do you have a high noise tolerance? Because those rooms can be some of the noisiest at BWV. When Big River Grille's patio is hopping with a couple of wedding parties, those rooms can get loud (I've stayed there and found those rooms to be the noisiest we've ever had).
It was in the 60s at night when we were at BW. Warm enough for us to sit outside with our ice cream at Ample Hills (we were coming from 30 degree weather!), but I don’t remember if people were sitting outside at Big River Grille. We were only there for two nights so maybe we got lucky with the noise!
I've had good luck with room requests (except when we are travelling with in laws and request rooms to be close together)...though sometimes my request is a noisy location. On the other had, we've had stinky luck with buses. HATE the buses and why we love BWV (to walk to 2 parks). Best trip ever would be 4 nights at BWV and 3 at BLT in 1BR (or 2BR depending on party size) villas.And sometimes you do just get lucky - I have the worst room request luck at Disney - but I seem to have the best bus luck - as far as I'm concerned, the buses have always been fantastic. Perhaps I have a higher tolerance for waits and standing - or maybe I stand and wait less than other people because I have good bus luck.....we will never know.....but I don't discount those that have bad bus luck - I'm sure it happens.
(And now I've jinxed myself for buses forever).
You got that right! After I seemed to get the opposite of my requests a couple of times, I just gave up. All you can depend on is booking category.the good news is that Boardwalk is lousy with room requests
That said, its completely possible you would notice no noise. Its completely possible that you will find it overwhelmingly noisy but the person in the room next to you doesn't even notice the noise. People have different tolerances for noise and they have different room patterns - someone isn't going to notice pool noise if they aren't in the room during peak pool time or are there in January....and someone isn't going to notice bar noise if they are out themselves until 2am.